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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:59:06 -0400 (EDT), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said:

> Whats wrong with specifying the search path with the '-R' flag when the
> program is linked?

The person doing the linking doesn't necessarily know where the
libraries are going to be installed.

-GAWollman

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